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• January 22, 2025

  Insurer Asks NC Court To Revive Civil Rights Coverage Fight

  An insurer asked a North Carolina state appeals court to revive its case seeking to deny coverage to the state after stepbrothers who were wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl won an underlying civil rights suit against the state officers they blamed for their incarceration.

• January 22, 2025

  Justices Skeptical Of 'Moment Of Threat' Rule In Use Of Force

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared inclined to reject a legal doctrine under which courts looking at a police officer's use of deadly force only need to consider the officer's perception of danger at the precise moment force was used.

• January 21, 2025

  Trump Installs New Prisons Chief, Revives Private Facilities

  President Donald Trump made sweeping changes to the criminal justice system in his first hours in office, including replacing the Federal Bureau of Prisons director brought in under the Biden administration and ending former President Joe Biden's plan to phase out privately run federal prisons.

• January 21, 2025

  Justices Order Review Of Sex-Shaming Murder Conviction

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday revived claims from a woman on death row in Oklahoma that prosecutors unfairly sex-shamed her and relied on gender-based stereotypes to convince a jury that she had killed her estranged husband for insurance money.

• January 17, 2025

  Justices Take Up Inmate's Case Over Tardy Appeal Notice

  The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a case regarding the proper procedure for appealing a suit after the initial window for filing a notice closes and then is reopened, an issue largely affecting pro se litigants.

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